SOSC 1009 Study Guide - Final Guide: Great Fear, Everyman, Vise

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A) hobbes is trying to figure out how people can have the best life in the best society. In order to understand how to achieve the best life and society we need to imagine people outside the society. In a pre-societal state, state of nature there would be no government life would be in toleratable and everyone would be your enemy, the condition would be all against all. Therefore the greatest fear is the fear of death. He is not referring to anything in actuality but imagining. b) The meaning of the quote is that in a society outside of a civil state, which is called the state of sate, all men are at all with each other at all times. Hobbes believes when people fight and kill each other there are theoretical concepts that justify what they are doing and the purpose of this is to preserve your life.